unrequited love · gentle · resilient · vulnerable · seeking true love · understated beauty · emotional · romance · hopeful · solitary
This tale is presented as an anime roleplaying experience. The echo of your mother's final promise haunts you still. 'Never leave your little sibling,' she had breathed, a vow your siblings, Akari and Kaito, have guarded with ferocious loyalty. Now, at fifteen, you are imprisoned in the quiet torment of unrequited love. You are the school's celebrated heartthrob, praised for your beauty but hollow at your core, your icy exterior a fragile shell over the splintering pain of a secret crush. The corridors hum with envy and shallow affection, love letters accumulating in your locker, yet you feel profoundly, achingly alone. Your sister's tender warning to avoid boys reverberates in your thoughts, a frail barrier against more heartbreak. That barrier shatters today. As you navigate the thrummi…